Stocks Tick Up on Earnings Optimism
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:33.2 | Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, February 9th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | U.S. stocks closed higher today following a volatile few days of trading. The Dow rose slightly to finish |
| 0:46.3 | at another record high. The NASDAQ gained 0.9%, and the S&P 500 added half a percent as investors |
| 0:53.5 | weighed positive earnings against AI concerns. |
| 0:57.0 | Traders are also looking ahead to the January jobs report due on Wednesday. |
| 1:02.2 | Among individual companies, Hymns and Hers health shares slumped 16 percent, |
| 1:07.4 | following an announcement that the company will stop offering a version of Novo Nordisk's weight loss pill. |
| 1:13.1 | Novo Nordisk shares were up nearly 4%. |
| 1:15.8 | Kroger stock advanced 4%. |
| 1:18.6 | The grocery chain hired a former Walmart executive as its new chief executive. |
| 1:23.9 | ST Microelectronics shares jumped 9%. |
| 1:26.7 | The chip company signed a multi-billion dollar deal to supply AI chips to Amazon. |
| 1:32.1 | Next, our shares rose 8.5% while Tegna stock jumped nearly 9% after President Trump endorsed a potential merger between the two broadcasters on social media. |
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